You could also automate the process of building the inventory by having a VM service
machine dedicated to that task. IPLing a machine from the inventory could recognize
that it was the first time it had been used, and smsg the service machine to cause it
to create a new userid. This way, taking machines off the front of the queue would
automatically add new machines to the end of the queue. You'd need to balance the
number of queued machines with the intensity of requests you wanted to be able to
handle.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Thornton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: The redpaper for cloning zLinux images via VQDIO is available
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> If raw speed is what you care about, you precreate a small inventory of
> machines, and hand those out on demand. As you IPL each one the first
> time, it can send a message indicating you need to refill your
> inventory. Then it turns into the time to IPL a Linux guest, typically
> (if few services are running) twenty seconds or so.
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